A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Barocci 169

Summary Catalogue no.: 169

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Good miniatures (drawings, fol. 101v-2r), perhaps added. Diagrams. Inscriptions in Latin. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 990)

fol. 100v

  • Type drawing
  • Subject Walled city with defendants and fortifications; soldiers carrying siegecraft; marching soldiers (brown ink, inscriptions in Latin).

fol. 101r

  • Type drawing
  • Subject Walled city, siegecraft and soldiers (brown ink, inscriptions in Latin).

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italian

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Greek Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues I, repr. 1969, with corrections, from the ed. of 1853). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000. Dating revised by Nigel Wilson, 2012.

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.